I’m not looking for Chromecast but I have a Linux system hooked up to a TV and ether net. I want a way to pick a YouTube or Amazon prime or Netflix video on my phone and display it on the TV via the Linux pc. Is that possible? If so what software can do it?

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Miracast (e.g. vis Miraclecast on linux) is a wireless standard for streaming video and audio from one device to another however this is not quite what youre talking about. Miracast basically runs the video on your phone and uses a remote device as a display via wifi. Chromecast actually mostly sends a link to a google device and then launches it on the device to play; there isnt a direct replacement to that. You could run Chrome or Chromium and cast to the browser but im not sure it’d work like a chromecaat device running the video locally.

    I have a living room linux PC and I generally use Firefox on my phone and the PC to send links/tabs via firefox sync.

    In addition KDE Connect (app on phone and also running on your linux PC) allows you to interact with your PC directly via your phone. You can send files back and forth, but also control media, share the clipboard, and send URLs from your phone to your PC to open in your default browser. This should work for Youtube and Netflix etc.

    I personally usually send a tab to my firefox browser via firefox sync, but you could also share link instead via android share to the KDE connect app which will send it to your device and it should open in you’re default browser.

    Also fyi KDE Connect doesnt need KDE to work - it works with any desktop environment.

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      19 days ago

      I’m hoping to do this as minimal as possible as the “Linux pc” is just an old raspberry pi.

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    18 days ago

    If you use kodi as your media software, either via a “kodi only” OS like libreelec or just opening it on any old linux install, you can use the kodi remote Yatze to cast video to Kodi. I use it all the time with youtube.

    Just hit share on the video on your phone, select the Yatze option and it will show a list of your media centers to cast to.

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    17 days ago

    Streaming don’t support Linux. Get a TV stick or box running android. Or use browser to access streaming site on Linux with a keyboard cum TouchPad and

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      19 days ago

      aside from it being the futo thing, I don’t think it has an android sender and it was incompatible with anything I tried last time.

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        18 days ago

        I’m using it to watch YouTube and Nubula videos cast from my GrapheneOS phone to my TV via an nVidia Shield.